By Michael Grey* Without delving too deep into any debates about gender, some of us are better than others at « multi-tasking ». But the arrival of hand-held, portable communication devices has led to us all, at some time, communicating, when our attention should have been upon something more urgent. It is why many governments now ban […]
L’Administration portuaire de Montréal (APM) confirme le lancement des travaux en eau sur le site de son projet d’expansion à Contrecœur. Conformément à la planification prévue, cette nouvelle étape marque le début officiel de cette importante phase de construction tout en clôturant les travaux préparatoires réalisés depuis l’automne 2025. Cette nouvelle phase constitue un jalon
L’Administration portuaire de Québec prend acte de la décision rendue aujourd’hui par l’Agence d’évaluation d’impact du Canada concernant la demande de désignation visant le projet de terminal de conteneurs dans le secteur de Beauport porté par QSL (Ce lien s’ouvrira dans une nouvelle fenêtre). À l’issue de son analyse, l’Agence confirme que l’Administration portuaire de Québec est l’autorité compétente pour encadrer l’évaluation environnementale conformément aux
Toronto — Fastfrate Group a acquis 100 % de Jardine Transport Group auprès de SeaFort Capital Inc. et de certains membres de l’équipe de direction de Jardine Transport Group. Jardine Transport Group comprend Jardine Transport, R.E.M. Transport, Gil Trucking, Quality Transportation et K&T Transport. Cette entente renforce davantage la position de Fastfrate Group en tant que l’un des principaux fournisseurs de services
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By Michael Grey* There is an open season on merchant mariners at present, and not in a nice way, with the warring parties around the Strait of Hormuz accompanying their confusing messages with a willingness to fire into innocent merchant ships in international waters. At least twenty seafarers have been killed in these incidents, which
By Michael Grey* On the occasion of last month’s “Day of the Seafarer”, I wonder how many of them felt properly appreciated. As members of a largely invisible workforce, in most of their home countries, it would be forgivable if this annual event was greeted with no more than a shrug. Even those trapped behind
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By Michael Grey* As this is being written, and if nothing more untoward occurs, the little expedition ship Hondius is due to arrive at Rotterdam after her grim encounter with the deadly Hantavirus on her latest cruise in Southern waters. The crew, who have been operating this ship in what appears to have been heroic
By Michael Grey* “Hormuz commanded the traffic along the shores of the Indian Ocean, linking what are now Oman and Pakistan, as well as the traffic through the Strait of Hormuz up to Basra in Iraq.” It was “a dust blown port with no natural resources, but with as many as 40,000 inhabitants.” Seeking some
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By Michael Grey* It was in the 1950s, during an earlier Middle East crisis, that the wife of a British Prime Minister complained that the Suez Canal was flowing through her sitting room. Today, of course, we have a different watercourse dominating the news and it is difficult to consider anything else. Nevertheless, we must
By Michael Grey* You would like to hope that all sorts of useful lessons are being learned from the current conflict in the Middle East, and not just about the consequences of offending irrational world leaders, with a short fuse and no sense of history. In staff colleges and war studies institutions, where cerebral military
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